Today’s daylong Martin Luther King Jr. celebration is flexible to accommodate anyone who wants the chance to celebrate the life of the renowned civil rights leader.
While Monday is the national holiday honoring King, today would have been his 75th birthday.
Today’s public events begin at noon and end with a 7 p.m. program at the Everett Civic Auditorium.
The day will begin with a private "diversity partnership breakfast" sponsored by Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson and County Executive Aaron Reardon.
At noon, a march will go from Everett Community College to the Snohomish County Courthouse. At 12:45 p.m., there will be a rally at the courthouse featuring motivational speaker Reginald Gillins and rap singer Willie Will.
A 7 p.m. program at Everett Civic Auditorium will feature the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Choir, a performance by gospel and rhythm and blues singer May Palmer, and "The Right to Dream," a theatrical piece by Living Voices about a fictional encounter between King and a young man.
In addition to today’s events, there will be a celebration of King’s life at 5 p.m. Sunday at First United Methodist Church, 3530 Colby Ave., Everett.
The King celebration choir will perform, and Tawnya Pettiford-Wates — director of the drama department at Seattle Central Community College and a playwright, director, actor, poet, writer and teacher — will speak. There also will be a performance of "The Criminal Color," which was written by Jeanne Mish Martinez Carter.
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